Chapter 21: Lay down the feast and wait for the king to come
Ge Guangmu changed to a new teacher, and he was a little happy in his heart.
However, in this class, Ge Guangmu couldn't be happy, and Mr. Hui didn't even say anything about the text, just talked about quotations.
If Mr. Hui is very knowledgeable, this quotation can also be attractive, but the problem is that what he says is a clichΓ©, the old people are sleepy when they listen to it, and the young people are bored when they listen to it.
However, the only good thing about this Mr. Hui is that he comes to class every day, and he doesn't come to Bichenxuan for a few days, just like Xianggong.
Under Mr. Hui's supervision, although Ge Guangmu felt that there was no fun, he could only stay at home in peace.
In the fourteenth year of Chongwen, this Spring Festival has arrived, and Ge Guangmu finally breathed a sigh of relief, so he didn't have to go to Bichenxuan.
Ge Guangmu was celebrating the festival at home, and he didn't know that anyone was thinking about him.
On the first day of the first lunar month, Zhang Zhishu had dinner at Zhang Zuwang's house, looking at the slightly shabby dishes on the table. complained and said: "Lao Zhang, I just said, this kind of disciple Ge Guangmu will not come back after one or two comes, you don't believe it, I don't think this is a cornucopia, and now these two hundred taels of silver are in the hands of others, we can only eat these things." β
Zhang Zuwang drank tea, listened to Zhang Zhishu's complaints, and said to Zhang Zhishu: "What are you panicking about, this Ge Guangmu will fall in sooner or later, go, find Gou Geng, he still owes me twenty taels of silver." β
Zhang Zhishu nodded, when he arrived at Gou Geng's house, Gou Geng had already gone to other places to hide his debts, and he was not at home.
After Zhang Zhishu came back, Zhang Zuwang didn't care, and said to Zhang Zhishu: "I'll talk about it after the Lantern Festival." β
After this night, Gou Geng estimated that the time was almost up, and he went home, which he heard from his son, Zhang Zuwang sent someone to find him, knowing that Zhang Zuwang had great powers, and it was not a way for him to hide like this, and that person was not here to collect debts, so he went to Zhang Zuwang's house.
When he arrived at Zhang's mansion, Zhang Zuwang asked Gou Geng to sit down and said to Gou Geng: "Your brother won two hundred taels of silver from me, you know this." β
"Know, know, Master Zhang, what do you mean"
"I have a new girl here, her name is Hua Hong, although the name is cheesy, but I don't have to say what she looks like."
After Gou Geng heard this, he said to Zhang Zuwang: "My brother has a teacher sitting there now, and he can't come out all day, Master Zhang, don't you know how hateful those Taoist gentlemen are. I don't understand any reasoning, and I can't refute it, so I can only listen. β
"You may not sit in this hall all day, you can come at night."
"This, this has a night ban, and the little one says what he buys medicine every day, and the adults don't believe it."
After Zhang Zuwang heard this, he said to Gou Geng: "I have this lantern, and Mei Zhaonan doesn't know where to go during this time, but the lantern is still left, and recently, a noble person has come to the disdainful place." β
Gou Geng saw Zhang Zuwang say this, so in the evening, he went to Bichenxuan with Mei Zhaonan's official lamp.
Ge Guangmu looked at the book, his heart was irritable, and he wanted to rest early, but he was sitting and reading all day, and he was not tired at all, and he couldn't sleep if he wanted to go to bed early.
After Gou Geng came to call the door, Ge Guangmu's mind suddenly became lively, but this time he did not go directly with Gou Geng, but told Zhang that his aunt was sick, and now his uncle and cousin were not at home, so he went to visit him.
Zhang's heart was worried about his brother-in-law, so naturally he didn't say anything, and asked Wang Zhong to find Ge Jing's pair of prefect lanterns from the treasury.
When Wang Zhong was about to accompany Ge Guangmu to go, Ge Guangmu said that Wang Zhong was always an outsider, and it would not be good to go late at night, and it would be bad to make some rumors at that time.
Wang Zhong didn't insist, Ge Guangmu was playing the lantern, and he was confident.
He and Gou Geng, one carrying the lantern of the former prefect, and the other holding the lantern of the current county honor, walked on the road, and the patrolling people didn't even ask.
When he arrived at Zhang Zuwang's house, Zhang Zuwang was having supper, and when he saw Ge Guangmu coming, Zhang Zuwang hurriedly got up, greeted him, and asked Ge Guangmu to sit down.
After sitting down, Zhang Zuwang introduced: "This is Lu Ya, a famous genius in the capital, he is now a scholar by the prefect's side, and ordinary people can't see this genius if they want to." β
Ge Guangmu hurriedly got up and saluted, while Lu Ya sat there, waving his hand so that Ge Guangmu didn't need to be polite.
Since this Lu Ya was expelled from the capital, he came here to join the prefect, and at first the prefect did rely on him as a talent, but later found that this Lu Ya was not so talented, and gradually became estranged.
Lu Ya also noticed this, so he used his Qingke skills to mingle with some poets all day long.
Most of these poets are disciples of the Han family, and after a long time, they naturally do not have the appetite for Lu Ya.
If you are a child of this family, most of them work dogs and horses, and they have a headache when they see books.
Therefore, Lu Ya also changed his strategy and began to specialize in these side ways, which at the beginning, naturally there were more times to lose and less time to win.
He is not a person with sky-high furniture, so he naturally wants to return to his roots, and under this urge, he is even more addicted.
When he could win money, he was naturally stuck in the mud and couldn't extricate himself.
For people like him, Zhang Zuwang has long paid attention to it, and it was only in the second half of last year that he had a relationship.
This is the first time Lu Ya has come to Zhang Zuwang's house, and Zhang Zuwang naturally wants to find a fat sheep to entertain him.
Ge Guangmu sat down and used this supper, and this bonus was waiting on the side, Ge Guangmu had a lot of fun here, and he didn't think about books.
This time, Zhang Zuwang did not let Ge Guangmu go to rest first, but let Ge Guangmu play.
At first, Zhang Zuwang gave Ge Guangmu a little benefit, and then went to hide the leaf card in his sleeve on the grounds that he was going to wash his hands.
Zhang Zuwang has long been a veteran, this dark Chen Cang, hiding from the sky and the sea, even a self-proclaimed veteran like Lu Ya can't see it, let alone a chick like Ge Guangmu.
Moreover, there is Gou Geng behind Ge Guangmu, and in order to pay off Zhang Zuwang's silver and earn a little money for himself, Gou Geng frequently signaled.
At the time of the third watch, all the money brought by Ge Guangmu was lost, and some was still owed.
As for how much he owed, Ge Guangmu didn't count, but just asked Gou Geng to remember it on the side, and every time he borrowed money, he would circle it.
Zhang Zuwang saw that Ge Guangmuruyu's face was bruised, so he smiled and said, "Young Master Ge, it seems that you are unlucky today, it is better to go and rest early." β
Ge Guangmu said: "Then look at the last one, how lucky is it"
Zhang Zuwang heard him say this, and naturally let him win, and then Ge Guangmu either won two or three games in a row, or lost in the last game, and won this game, hanging like this, and the sky was dawning unconsciously.
When it was dawn, Ge Guangmu was really tired, Zhang Zuwang asked Ge Guangmu to rest, but before resting, he handed over the account book to Ge Guangmu and asked Ge Guangmu to sign and draw.
Ge Guangmu was groggy, and he saw that this debt was a bit much, but he thought that it was only one or two hundred taels of silver, and when the time came, he would treat it as if he had not won the last time.
Ge Guangmu rested until the afternoon, Hua Hong waited, and when it was time for dinner, everyone began to fight again.
This night, Ge Guangmu's luck was worse than yesterday, Zhang Zuwang saw that he had made a lot of money, so he could kill with confidence, and he was not afraid that Ge Guangmu would leave now.
At the tenth point of the second watch, Ge Guangmu just lost, so naturally he lost interest and said that he was going to rest.
Zhang Zuwang asked Hua Hong to take Ge Guangmu down, and then began to settle accounts.
On the morning of the third day, after Ge Guangmu got up, Zhang Zuwang asked the servant to tell Ge Guangmu the account, and he owed a total of 600 taels of silver.
Of them owed him four hundred taels, and Lu Ya two hundred taels of silver.
After Ge Guangmu heard this, he was just speechless, he didn't know that he had lost so much.
Seeing that he didn't believe it, Zhang Zuwang let the account room settle the account, and in the end, there were still more than a dozen taels, so Zhang Zuwang exempted Ge Guangmu.
Ge Guangmu listened and saw that it was indeed signed, and he couldn't help but feel sad, so he wrote an IOU and asked Ge Guangmu to sign it.
After Ge Guangmu signed it, he left here and lost his soul.
Back home, when Zhang saw Ge Guangmu like this, he couldn't help but feel nervous and asked, "How is your aunt?"
When Ge Guangmu heard this question, he came to his senses and said to Zhang: "This, this, my aunt is fine, it's just that the child is worried day and night, and she is a little tired." β
"My son, I've worked hard for you, so let's go and rest." Seeing that Ge Guangmu was indeed tired, Zhang asked Ge Guangmu to go and rest.
When Zhang was about to let Chunmei take care of his son, Chunmei came to Zhang's face, but Zhang's was surprised.
Zhang hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"
Chunmei said the matter with tears in her eyes, and after Zhang heard it, she didn't blame her, and let Chunmei rest and raise the fetus well.
Zhang had no choice but to take care of his child personally, and when Ge Guangmu woke up and saw his mother beside him, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty.
It's hard for him to say about this, and he doesn't dare to take out the money, after all, six hundred taels of silver is not six hundred dollars.
He could only hide in Bi Zhen Xuan, and if Gou Geng came to collect debts, he would excuse himself for a few days.
Day after day, Zhang Zuwang didn't want to get this money, but lost two hundred taels of silver.
So he asked Wang Erzhu to collect debts, and Wang Erzhu was not afraid of heaven and earth, and knocked on the door when he arrived at Ge's house.
Wang Zhong asked who it was, and Wang Erzhu said angrily: "Those who come to collect debts, quickly invite your father-in-law out." β
After Wang Zhong heard this, he didn't dare to open the door even more, and went to Bichen Xuan from the back door to find Ge Guangmu who was reading the quotations.
After Ge Guangmu heard this, his face turned white instantly, and he muttered: "How is this good, how is this good?"
Seeing this situation, Wang Zhong hurriedly asked: "Great Minister, what's going on, you said earlier, the old slave can also help come up with ideas." β
Ge Guangmu told the ins and outs of this matter, and after Wang Zhong heard it, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to Ge Guangmu: "It's okay, you just lock the door, don't pay attention to it." β